Lily Pons, French-American soprano and actress (born 1904)

Lily Pons

French-American operatic soprano (1898–1976)

Alice Joséphine Pons, known professionally as Lily Pons, was a French-American operatic lyric coloratura soprano and actress who had an active career from the late 1920s through the early 1970s. As an opera singer, she specialized in the coloratura soprano repertoire and was…